It was one of the greatest faults I made in selecting toys for her !! The fault is but simple. This time I bought nothing but a magic cube. It looked like a cage filled with attractive colours. I convinced myself that she will enjoy the cube! In my boyhood days,nobody had bought a cube for me. I don't know why they didn't buy. Perhaps this 'toy' was not familiar then . But now I suspect that, old people had more discriminating power than today's people including myself have!
As a student in high school classes, I had learnt by-heart many meaningless formulas including 'a cube','b cube' and even 'a plus b whole cube'. Thus the memories of cube were associated with the shouting faces of my mathematics teachers. I was taught how to find the volume of water kept in a cubical vessel. But no teachers asked me to solve a cube,even when I was in my degree mathematics classes! But now every kindergarten children keep a cube with them!!
I have read everywhere that a cube is a good gift to children,remarking that it awakens the logic sense of children. So, as a father it was my duty to introduce brilliant toys to my child. But I was sure that she is not going to solve it in the near future!!
When she got it with her,she was very happy,turned it here and there,enjoyed it or its pattern of colours. She learned to call it a cube,counted the number of stickers as I suggested,named each colour and recognised each face to be a 'square' and most the facts her mathematics teacher mrs.Shyla and g.k teacher mrs.Sheeba taught her. I suggested her, you should solve this cube later,by arranging each colour on each face. She responded ,'how'?
It was just for time passing I started to 'play' with the cube yesterday. I convinced soon that it was not just time passing! I could do nothing with that 'simple looking' cube. I was felt ashamed of my logic sense. I was also tensed on the psychologist's quoting- 'not only the environment but also heredity (!) determines a child's ability'. It took at least half an hour for me making only one side single coloured. It was not possible,even to make two sides single coloured simultaneously. I knew that I am not the one to solve it completely !!
I tried to convince myself that it is not possible to solve it. I searched on the encyclopedias and collected many valuable facts . This Rubik's cube was introduced in 1974 by toy makers. It is the largest sold 'toy' since then!!!!
I could also see lengthy algorithms explaining its method of solving,none of which are easy for beginners to follow. Then will anybody explain me why it is the largest sold toy?
But children are always interested in it or in its colour pattern or in its movements or in something else and it may be the logic behind it!! However I recommend this magic cube, because it can inspire a future architect, a future mechanic,a future problem solver or a future' problem maker' !!
As a student in high school classes, I had learnt by-heart many meaningless formulas including 'a cube','b cube' and even 'a plus b whole cube'. Thus the memories of cube were associated with the shouting faces of my mathematics teachers. I was taught how to find the volume of water kept in a cubical vessel. But no teachers asked me to solve a cube,even when I was in my degree mathematics classes! But now every kindergarten children keep a cube with them!!I have read everywhere that a cube is a good gift to children,remarking that it awakens the logic sense of children. So, as a father it was my duty to introduce brilliant toys to my child. But I was sure that she is not going to solve it in the near future!!
When she got it with her,she was very happy,turned it here and there,enjoyed it or its pattern of colours. She learned to call it a cube,counted the number of stickers as I suggested,named each colour and recognised each face to be a 'square' and most the facts her mathematics teacher mrs.Shyla and g.k teacher mrs.Sheeba taught her. I suggested her, you should solve this cube later,by arranging each colour on each face. She responded ,'how'?
It was just for time passing I started to 'play' with the cube yesterday. I convinced soon that it was not just time passing! I could do nothing with that 'simple looking' cube. I was felt ashamed of my logic sense. I was also tensed on the psychologist's quoting- 'not only the environment but also heredity (!) determines a child's ability'. It took at least half an hour for me making only one side single coloured. It was not possible,even to make two sides single coloured simultaneously. I knew that I am not the one to solve it completely !!
I tried to convince myself that it is not possible to solve it. I searched on the encyclopedias and collected many valuable facts . This Rubik's cube was introduced in 1974 by toy makers. It is the largest sold 'toy' since then!!!!
I could also see lengthy algorithms explaining its method of solving,none of which are easy for beginners to follow. Then will anybody explain me why it is the largest sold toy?
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